Assignment band blog posting VOID

Part1.

ISKL's mission statement:
"The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that (silence) challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen."


I think adding a silence after the word, 'that' creates the best tension. When you add a void after the word, 'that' audience will get curious and question about what's going to be said. Because when you only say that and doesn't really say what 'that' is, it really makes people want to know what that actually is. Also, audience will wait for the speaker to complete the sentence which will also create interesting feelings.


Part 2

Composers can create tension by suddenly changing the mood of music, using different instruments for melody and using minor scales. Composers can release by going back to the same mood,instruments before he created the tension.

Part 3

Answers of the Story

1) I would call this story 'The Black Box', because the black box is very important in this story. And I'm not sure why but i feel that the black box is making a void, making me wonder who's going to get the lottery.

2) I thought lottery was always good thing. I thought they would have a really big celebration for the person who won the lottery. but i was wrong, the lottery wasn't a good thing at all. They stoned Tessie(who won the lottery) It was really surprising.

3) I really wanted to open it, I was curious about the ending of the story. Then I started to wonder why teachers are doing this to us. This whole thing was about the void. Not letting us open this paper until 5 pm didn't made any changes, nothing would have gone wrong if somebody opened it earlier, but I knew that teachers wanted to make us question and wonder. I think this part was another void in this assignment.

4) I felt really nervous, and wanted to get a paper with a black dot, because way back then, I thought a paper with a black dot was a good thing. Unfortunately I got a paper without a dot. To be honest, I opened it on bus, since nobody was looking.(sorry) because I was full of curiosity and couldn't handle it anymore.

5) It was interesting, how the author keep saying black, black and black. Cause usually black represents bad things. I think they're voids, really make me curious. like for black paper, I get curious who's going to get it.

6) The end of story was really shocking, gave me all the answers. I was really confused why Mrs.Hutchinson keep saying 'this isn't fair'. but then I realized why.

7) No, my prediction wasn't correct at all. But I think the author wants my prediction to be wrong, because that's how he created this so interesting, by building all the elements and then at the end he had changed it upside down.

8) If there were titles, and less of void it would have been easy for me to predict the ending. but if it was easy to predict the ending, I wouldn't have died to read the story.

9) Because voids always make people question. If people start to question they will think more deeply, maybe the story might get popular then.

10) a) No titles makes me wonder what this story is basically about.

b) No ending makes me wonder what the ending is, even make me guess the ending.

c) I don't get this one.

d)Mystery paper makes me wonder what is the lottery, who's going to get it

They all made me question and wonder.

A good picture makes us curious and makes us want to know more” - Steve McCurry

Se Jin Lee January 18, 2010

One of the greatest photographers, Steve McCurry was born in Philadelphia, 1950. He graduated the College of Arts and Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. He became famous with his photography, which captures human struggle and joy. McCurry takes his risky journeys around the world to take good pictures in countries like Pakistan. He also has won several awards. One of his photography,the Afghan girl is chosen as the most magnificent photos in the world. He also was a writer, he wrote nine books. In many of his photos, he captured civil conflicts during Iran- Iraq War. The main themes of his photo are sadness and suffering
“A good picture makes us curious and makes us want to know more” – Steve McCurry




Among those amazing photos in Steve McCurry's blog, this photo which was taken at Kuwait, 1991 during a war by Steve McCurry had captured my attention. There is a dead body in foreground and a tank in the background. I also can see a small fire way back in the foreground. When I first saw this picture, the face of the dead body really caught my eyes. He really focused on the face; it’s hard to recognize, except its terrible facial expression which really tells me how cruelly this person has been killed. The dead body seems like a soldier’s, burned during the explosion. He used color to tell the mood of the picture. Every thing except the fire is black, representing the death, sadness and suffering. Even the color red of fire is emphasizing the explosion, maybe the color of hell. I think McCurry is trying to emphasize that wars only leads to death in this photo. Just like he said, if man kinds don’t stop the wars, mankind will die because of the wars.
“Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face.”





Steve McCurry’s photos are great, because he uses colors, positions, balance, size and others to warn us that if you take away human rights from some people, they will suffer and die. His photos also makes us realize what is happening outside. I think his photos will last forever, because he captures all the sadness and suffering during human's histories. And histories will last forever in our heart, especially histories that made us suffer. I thought that I was reading a history book when I went throw his photos, though it was much interesting than a history book, it captured a lots of historical events, moods. Steve McCurry is just amazing! I hope he keeps taking more of these amazing photos, so people can realize the reality, the people who are suffering without some rights and that we got to help them.